Deuteronomy 28:15-20

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Curses for Disobedience

¹⁵However, if you do not obey^(A) the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today,^(B) all these curses will come on you and overtake you:^(C)

¹⁶You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.^(D)

¹⁷Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.^(E)

¹⁸The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.^(F)

¹⁹You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.^(G)

²⁰The Lord will send on you curses,^(H) confusion and rebuke^(I) in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin^(J) because of the evil^(K) you have done in forsaking him.^[a]

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 28:20 Hebrew me

Isaiah 65:25

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²⁵The wolf and the lamb^(A) will feed together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox,^(B)
    and dust will be the serpent’s^(C) food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
    on all my holy mountain,”^(D)
says the Lord.

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Isaiah 65:25 in all English translations

Micah 7:17

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¹⁷They will lick dust^(A) like a snake,
    like creatures that crawl on the ground.
They will come trembling^(B) out of their dens;
    they will turn in fear^(C) to the Lord our God
    and will be afraid of you.